Dictionary of Welsh Biography

WILLIAMS, JOHN, goldsmith usual practice of confusing successive John Williamses of this family, and therefore altogether skips the John Williams now under discussion. Tradition associates John Williams with Hafod Lwyfog in Beddgelert parish (a house which certainly belonged to the Cesail Gyfarch clan), and it is certain that in 1610 he gave the church at Beddgelert a silver chalice and paten-cover (E. A. Jones, Church Plate
WILLIAMS, Sir JOHN KYFFIN (1918 - 2006), painter and author Patagonian paintings and other gifts, Kyffin is considered one of the main patrons of the National Library. By now the Library holds 700 colour slides, photographs taken by Kyffin in Patagonia, 250 oil paintings (including the Patagonian collection) and 1,456 creative works on paper. This is the largest collection in the world of Kyffin's work. During his lifetime he also presented 400 of his own paintings
WILLIAMS, MARIA JANE (Llinos; 1795 - 1873), folklore collector and musician Dunraven in 1819, which was now leased to them. In the area, they became known as 'Ladis y Cottage'. It is here that Maria Jane Williams spent the remainder of her life, heading a considerable household of eleven which included Fanny Baker (b. 1826), assumed to be her daughter, though it was claimed that she was the niece of the servant Jemima Baker. By then, the circle around Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover
WILLIAMS, MATHEW (1732 - 1819), landsurveyor, author, and almanack-maker? is now in the Cardiff Public Library - is a reference under August 1790 to the death of ' Mathew Williams, author of a Welsh Almanack, this 14 years past, printed yearly in Carmarthen. He was from them parts by birth, by trade a weaver, by profession a dissenter, 55 years of age '; note, however, that our Mathew Williams describes himself as ' land surveyor ' in some of his works. It is possible
WILLIAMS, MOSES (1685 - 1742), cleric and scholar response to his ' Proposals,' published in 1719, was disappointing and he had to abandon his ambitious and praiseworthy intention. He rescued scarce books. He travelled all over Wales, visiting the mansions of the great in order to inspect their libraries and to copy or take extracts from their manuscripts. The Llanstephan manuscripts and the Shirburn printed books, now in the National Library, are ample
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1782 - 1818), composer of the hymn-tune 'Llanfair' also a musician of great repute. The tune which we now call ' Llanfair ' was at first called ' Bethel '; it is so called in Robert Williams's manuscript book, and is there dated 14 July 1817. It was first printed (again named ' Bethel') as harmonized by John Roberts (1807 - 1876) of Henllan, in the Peroriaeth Hyfryd (1837) of John Parry (1775 - 1846) His burial is recorded in Llanfechell parish
WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1848 - 1918), architect, author and social reformer books now forms the core of the architecture rare book collection at Cardiff University.
WILLIAMS, Sir ROGER (1540? - 1595), soldier and author There were three persons bearing this name who must be distinguished one from another - (1) Sir Roger Williams (1604? - 1683), founder of the colony of Rhode Island, U.S.A.; he used to be claimed as a Welshman, afterwards as a Cornishman, but now it can be fairly confidently stated that he was the son of a James Williams, ' citizen and merchant taylor of London,' and his wife Alice; (2) Roger
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (fl. end of the 18th century), attorney, outstanding figure in the copper industry Uxbridge in 1788, Thomas Williams gave a hint that he himself had ambitions to become a Member of Parliament; he was elected for Great Marlow in 1790, and held the seat till his death on 30 November 1802. His descendants gradually released their hold on the copper industry; they are now remembered as owners of the Craig-y-don estate and the founders of banks. Several were Members of Parliament; three of
WILLIAMS, THOMAS (Tom Nefyn; 1895 - 1958), minister (Presb.) and evangelist Woodbrooke, Selly Oak, Birmingham, to be reinstated as a minister by his Connexion. He now felt ready to accept the ' Shorter Declaration on Faith and Practice ' adopted by the Presbyterian Church of Wales and he was reinstated at the Porthcawl Association in April 1931. (See The Tom Nefyn Controversy, a pamphlet published by the Welsh Review Co. Ltd., Tonmawr, Port Talbot (c. 1929); Tom Nefyn-Williams, Yr
WILLIAMS, Sir TREVOR (c. 1623 - 1692) Llangibby, politician support of the country party led to his removal from the county bench in February 1680; this he avenged the following January by joining John Arnold in demanding the removal of Worcester (whom he accused of garrisoning Chepstow with Papists) from the royal court and council, while Worcester (now duke of Beaufort) replied by procuring against him, in November 1683, a verdict of 'scandalum magnatum,' with
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (Gwilym Peris; 1769 - 1847), poet married man, a slate quarryman, born in the parish of Llanberis but now resident at Waunfawr.' He wrote an awdl on ' Providence,' which was the subject prescribed by Humphrey Thomas, brother of Dafydd Ddu Eryri, as a set piece for the poets of Caernarvonshire at their meeting at Bontnewydd, Llanwnda, in 1803. In 1804 he sent an awdl on ' Ynys Prydain ' to the Gwyneddigion eisteddfod, but it was Dewi Wyn

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